Shrub up to 150 cm in height (rarely taller), with complex sexual expression (it presents multiple sex combinations, even within individuals and over time). Older stems glabrescent or \u00b1 tomentose, without leaves. Young stems \u00b1 pendulous at the apex, covered by a dense white tomentum that is composed solely of short and \u00b1 crisped hairs. Leaves closely imbricated at the end of the young stems, somewhat less imbricated towards the base of the stems, but always \u00b1 appressed; 2-8 \u00d7 1.5-5 mm, from orbicular-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, incurved, sessile, thick, coriaceous, persistent, with involute margins, adaxial surface covered by a dense white tomentum, and glabrous and green on the abaxial surface. Inflorescences in glomeruli, with 2-12 flowers, ebracteate, at end of short branches. Flowers unisexual and hermaphrodite, 3-5 mm, infundibuliform, yellow; hypanthium tomentose; sepals 1-1.5 mm, ovate, obtuse, the overlapping pair of sepals with a partial indumentum on their inner face. Anthers orange. Style apical. Fruit nuciform, usually free from the hypanthium at maturity, with pericarp membranous and glabrous or variable hairiness. Seeds 1.6-2.6 \u00d7 1-1.5 mm, conical-ovoid, with straight apex and chalaza \u00b1 flat, without an aril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13113","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n